Word: aegean
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...began to rise high above the wine-dark Aegean Sea, the twelve bells of Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos pealed out a welcome. In the rock-strewn bay at the foot of the 500-ft. promontory on which Great Lavra stands, a procession of five ships unloaded 1,000 visitors. Jeeps and trucks carried the pilgrims,*who were led by King Paul of Greece, up the steep road to the monastery yard. The bells of other monasteries joined those of Great Lavra in a tolling, rhythmic counterpoint to the chanting of the monks...
...Peak of God." A green, mountainous finger pointed eastward into Homer's Aegean, the Athos peninsula was thought sacred long before Jesus came on earth. Aeschylus refers to Athos as "the peak of God," and Christians quite happily modified the belief in their own way. According to one legend, a ship carrying the Virgin Mary to Cyprus was blown to Athos by a storm. When she arrived, the pagan idols spoke to the inhabitants, ordering them to pay homage to the Mother of God, who baptized them, and claimed the mountain as a gift from...
...manual on how to turn a drowsy little Greek island into the Catskills of the charter-flight set. Con Man Robert Preston and his pal Tony Randall seed the waters around the island with phony erotic antiques to revive a legend that the place used to be an old Aegean orgy ground. With the innocent help of Georgia Moll, the trick works, and soon the island is swinging with so many foreign tourists in native costume that it resembles United Nations Day at a free-love camp. Everybody is holding hands and smooching, and, lest the point be lost, there...
...vanished, slums are clean and filled with bookstores and nurseries, soldiers are as dedicated as young priests, everyone conscientiously does his daily t'ai chi ch'aun calisthenics. Even the Yellow River, now dammed and tamed like everything else in China, runs blue-"blue as the Aegean," Snow says...
...dived into the mottled blue-green Aegean, and when she came up, all dripping and skin-soaked, the sea had yielded its finest vision since Botticelli painted Aphrodite on her shell...